Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations

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This text provides an overview and concise introduction to labor relations in Europe. The author seeks to transcend nationalism in labor relations by focusing his discussion and analysis on the continent as a whole and on groups of countries. The national focus is to some extent given up, not for a concentration on differences within nations, but in favor of a discussion of common European developments. European labor relations have a number of basic features in common, not only in collective bargaining and conflict, but also in worker participation and in the role of national governments. And, in a number of ways, these features are strikingly different from the labor relations model seen in the United States. The text, therefore, offers an illuminating analysis of commonalities and differences within European labor relations, as well as between the United States and Europe.

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Between Bargaining and Politics is a welcome addition to the comparative political economy literature and a valuable reference for Scandinavian scholars interested in understanding fundamental differences in how labor relations systems function in Europe.-Scandinavian Studies
Provides simply the best introduction to European labor relations that I have seen....This is a clear, easily understood, factually and analytically accurate book that I would highly recommend for beginning student and advanced specialist alike....There is clarity and simplicity here for the beginning student of European labor relations and political economy. Yet there is also rich material here for the specialist, in concise summaries that sort through complex literatures to suggest questions and hypotheses for present and future testing.-Industrial and Labor Relations Review
The short history provided may be of considerable use to beginning students or non-European business practitioners...There is more good informational value in the author's discussion of labor relations and politics in the 1990s, collective bargaining and conflict, and on recent events in the economic policy making of the European Union.-Choice
This volume...provides a ready overview of European industrial relations....Many aspects of this book make this a successful introduction to European industrial relations. It is concise and provides a useful and informative overview of the historical traditions associated with each of the three variants of the European model of industrial relations.-Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
"Between Bargaining and Politics is a welcome addition to the comparative political economy literature and a valuable reference for Scandinavian scholars interested in understanding fundamental differences in how labor relations systems function in Europe."-Scandinavian Studies
"The short history provided may be of considerable use to beginning students or non-European business practitioners...There is more good informational value in the author's discussion of labor relations and politics in the 1990s, collective bargaining and conflict, and on recent events in the economic policy making of the European Union."-Choice
"This volume...provides a ready overview of European industrial relations....Many aspects of this book make this a successful introduction to European industrial relations. It is concise and provides a useful and informative overview of the historical traditions associated with each of the three variants of the European model of industrial relations."-Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
"Provides simply the best introduction to European labor relations that I have seen....This is a clear, easily understood, factually and analytically accurate book that I would highly recommend for beginning student and advanced specialist alike....There is clarity and simplicity here for the beginning student of European labor relations and political economy. Yet there is also rich material here for the specialist, in concise summaries that sort through complex literatures to suggest questions and hypotheses for present and future testing."-Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Author Bio

HANS SLOMP is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Labor Relations in Europe: A History of Issues and Developments (Greenwood, 1990).